After performing as an opening-act for international artists, Los Lonely Boys, at Fletcher?s in Baltimore, BNZ was approached by a close friend of famed producer, John Alagia, well known for producing the works of Dave Matthews, John Mayer, and Liz Phair. Impressed with the music of BNZ, John Alagia would introduce the band to master engineers Stewart Myers (Jason Mraz, Lifehouse, Rachel Yamagata) and Chris Keup (Jason Mraz) who would turn select songs from ?Tricky Damn Road? as well as a slew of new songs into a broadcast quality E.P., placing BNZ as a fore-runner to national radio success.

Fear must be conquered. Life is so short and its often a struggle to accomplish whatever it is you are reaching for. Its also often a struggle between doing what you think you need to do and doing what you want to do.

Lyrics

When I come around
I don't want to see you looking down
And when I close my eyes
I don't want to smell you by my side

You're making me wait too long
And making me sing my song
Your hanging me out to dry
Your making me loose my mind
Making me lose my mind for the very last time

I find
When you hold life by its handles
And wrestle it to the ground
Until your fears they subside
And all you'll have around you
Will be some wind into your lungs
And you might get by
And live another life
Behind another set of eyes

So when my love is found
I don't want to feel the painful pound
Your look is just burning my eyes
Your making me want to drown my mind

Your keepingme up too long
Your making me sing my song
Your hanging me out to dry
Your making me lose my mind
Making me lose my mind for the very last time

I find
When you hold life by its handles
And wrestle it to the ground
Until your fears they subside
And all you'll have around you
Will be some wind into your lungs
And then you'll die

I'm stuck inside
This tornado upside down
And I want to be by your side
But all these winds are much too strong
And I can't stay in one place for too long

This song is about a relationship that has just ended and the waves of emotion and clarity that accompany the time right afterwards.

Lyrics

Just got through with seeing you
Seeing all inside of you
And finding things I never knew
Sides of you I've gotten through
By drinking in the afternoon
Lean on me, and I will lean on you
Lean on you

I guess I won't be seeing you
While I'm going on with what I do
Without you it's much less than I'm accustomed to
Wandering without you
I guess it's what I gotta do
If I am to get back home

Cause it's a long hike up from the bottom
And a short stroll down from the top
And I'm almost there, I'm almost home to me you see

And I guess I won't be seeing you
In camera one or camera two
Baby which lens were you looking through?
You seen this man, a man in me you thought you knew
Baby blue what did you do?
Were you drinking in the afternoon?

Lean on me, and I will lean on you
Lean on me, I'll bleed on you
Lean on me, I lean on you
And when I lean on you I fall throughÃ?Â?

Its been a while since I've been down
But I'm back now, back to see you bleed
Climbing up now step by step
And trying not to wreck, but this rope is around my neck

Are you shaking me down totem pole maker?
Got your head stuck in the cloud?
I won't make a sound until I
See you falling down on top of me
Are you flagging me down totem pole maker?
Flagging me down to the ground?
I won't make a sound until I
See you falling down on top of me

Down on me
You're down on me

And all this time I keep milking the benefits from your doubts
That's why I'm giving you to the count of three, 123
Climbing up now and holding on
To whats left the thrill has gone
And the rest of us are hanging on

Are you flagging me down totem pole maker?
Flagging me down to the ground?
I won't make a sound until I
See you falling down on top of me

You don't care man, and you don't care
You don't care man now do ya?
You don't care man, and you don't care
You don't care I see through ya!

Are you shaking me down totem pole maker?

Are you shaking me down totem pole maker?
Got your head stuck in the cloud?
I won't make a sound until I
See you falling down on top of me

if everything happens for a reason, why try to make the process speed up? Keep dreaming

Lyrics

So
On this story goes
Getting older though
It won't seem to let me go
I don't know why I keep trying to find
Why it hurts inside
When all these clocks they keep ticking right on
But it takes so long every time I try

And now its clear to me
For all these things I must wait patiently
Go on world, just keep shaking me
And I'll just get back to my dream

So
Days go by so slow
And into the cold they go
What a lonely place I know
Its on these days I keep on trying to find
Why it hurts inside
With all these clocks they just keep ticking right on
But it takes so long every time I try

And now its clear to me
For all these things I must wait patiently
Go on world, just keep shaking me
And I'll just get back to my dream

I see it rise around me
Not falling down upon me
Its hard to tell the weather
I hope we're there together at last
If this is at all linked to my past
Its out of gas

An Artist not knowing how to love a person as much as they love art. The constant struggle to not dive head first into a relationship since you know when the time comes for music, it will take precedence over the one you love's needs.

Lyrics

Here she comes and there she goes
Maybe this is best left alone
But all these words they keep coming to me
I never set any free, so here I go

First thing she ought to know
Is I'm made up of just flesh and bones
And these strings they keep singing to me
I kind of need to wait and see where strings go

But I'd be by your side if your path filled with landmines
And I want you to know me

I carol lady
I'm feeling crazy
Hang on lady
And this carol might save me
And get me singing in the fall again

A lot to ask? Maybe so?
Off your clothes and down on you I will go
Cause your smile it keeps spinning me round
I hope it's gonna pick me up after knocking' me down

Cause I'm lost in your eyes and you broke all my brake lights
And I want you to know me

I carol lady
I'm feeling crazy
Hang on lady
Carol teach me.

Come on show me how!
If you don't I will discover it somehow
You don't stop back now baby
You were already going
When it's all done
Its seems unfair and your scared
And you're on your own